2 European Agency for Safety and Health at Work. Research on the changing world of work — Implications on occupational s[...]3 EUROSTAT Newsrelease 180§/2008, 16 December 2008, accessed on 15 February 2009 at: http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/p[...]

1 Postponing the first child should be understood in a macro context, i.e. the relative change that occurs in the [...]2 Vice versa it means that if women in a birth cohort would start getting their babies earlier than in previous co[...]3 However, non-marital birth rates may not include children born to married women whose husbands are not the biolo[...]

1 The results presented here are from the Executive summary of the Annual Epidemiological Report of the European Centre[...]2 References to these sources are available in the full Annual Epidemiological Report on Communicable Diseases in Europ[...]

2 Please see: http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/disability/index_en.html 3 The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was adopted by the United Nations' General Assembly on 13 o[...]4 Article 31, paragraph 1 of the UN Convention on the rights of people with disabilities states that: States Parties un[...]5 COM(2003)650 http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/news/2003/oct/com650_final_en.html 6 COM(2005)604 http://ec.europa.eu/employment_social/index/com_2005_604_en.pdf 7 EU Charter on Fundamental Rights, Article 26: "The Union recognises and respects the right of persons with disabiliti[...]

25 Those classified as toxic according to the EU legislation, Council Directive 67/548/EEC of 27 June 1967 on the app[...]26 EU member states as of 2006 27 Method validation and quality control procedures for pesticide residues analysis in food and feed, Document No SANCO/[...]28 Commission Directive 2002/63/EC of 11 July 2002 establishing Community methods for sampling for the official control [...]29 Directive 2003/99/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 November 2003 on the monitoring of zoonoses [...]30 OJ 121, 29.7.1964, p.1977 31 OJ L 224, 18.8.1990, p.19 32 OJ 186, 30.6.1989, p.23 33 Decision No 2119/98/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council setting up a network for the epidemiological surv[...]34 In August 2006 the European Commission set targets for Member States to meet in reducing the presence of Salmonella in[...]35 Council Directive 86/362/EEC of 24 July 1986 on the fixing of maximum levels of pesticides residues in and on cereals[...]36 Council Directive 86/363/EEC of 24 July 1986 on the fixing of maximum levels of pesticides residues in and on foodstu[...]37 Council Directive 90/642/EEC of 27 November 1990 on the fixing of maximum levels of pesticides residues in and on cer[...]38 Commission of the European Communities: Monitoring of Pesticide Residues in Products of Plant Origin in the European [...]39 http//ec.europa.eu/food/fvo/specialreports/pesticides_index_en.htm 40 Commission f the European Communities:Monitoring of Pesticides Residues in Products of Plant Origin in the European U[...]41 Commission Decision 2004/478EC concerning the adoption of a general plain for food/feed crisis management. Official Jo[...]

42 The EU 27 Member States plus Iceland, Lichtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and Turkey 43 Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Switzerland 44 EUROFOUND points out that the observed country differences may reflect cultural awareness of the issue and willingness[...]45 The question put to respondents was: "First, a rather personal question. People sometimes grab, touch or assault [...]46 The question was: 'Apart from the incidents just covered, have you over the past five years been personally attac[...]